At twenty years old, Bella Marie Sinclair has everything money can buy. As the mysterious heiress behind Maison Belle-the world's most coveted luxury fashion house-she lives behind wealth, beauty, and carefully guarded secrets. Except one. Her father has already chosen the man she's supposed to marry. Refusing to surrender her future, Bella comes up with a reckless plan: find a temporary husband, stay married for one year, then quietly walk away. She expects every man to say yes. Elijah Romano is the first to say no. A talented young chef in Paris, Elijah has no interest in Bella's fortune, her status, or the life she represents. The more she pushes, the more stubborn he becomes. What begins as a battle of wills slowly leads them far from the glittering streets of Paris to the quiet island of Isla Verde, where shared meals, muddy fields, and ordinary days begin to change them both in ways neither expected. Because sometimes love doesn't arrive with grand declarations. Sometimes... It begins with someone quietly asking, "Have you eaten?"

࿐ Description: 4 In 𝕱𝖆𝖊 𝕽𝖎𝔰𝖊 Saga ࿐ ❝Checkmate." The BloodKing is free.❞ As King Oberon and his warlords pray for the best, Lisa is held captive in the dark fortress of the BloodKing himself. The question is, what does he want with her? Lisa's no longer holding out for hero. She's alone, and it's up to her to survive in this dark castle of masked hatred and threats wrapped in silk. Meanwhile, the Seelie are forced to hold back all their seafaring forces because the BloodKing has created a monster; a black Phoenix that destroys ships and attacks sailors. Puck and Aggwen set out with a strange crew of sailors in an attempt to catch the Phoenix and kill it. But there's just one problem with that plan. The ship is haunted. By a poltergeist that spends all its nights laughing at the sailor's quarrels and misfortune. And more than anyone, the ghost is after Puck. After a terrible night on the ship's deck, Puck decides that it's up to him to capture this fiendish poltergeist that's been tormenting the sailors. But there may be more to the ghost than meets the eye.... And the Phoenix as well. 1# In Elf 2# In Faerie 3# In Faeries 2# In Sailing

The world ended faster than anyone thought it could. When the dead began to rise, Martha Maxis and her team discovered the outbreak wasn't from their world. It came through a breach from somewhere else. The Dark Aether. A twisted mirror of their world where the dead never stop coming. Maxis volunteered to cross over and find out how to stop them. She was supposed to be gone for hours. For Kestis, Callaghan, and Williams, she was missing for one month. For Maxis, it was four years. When she finally repairs the portal from the other side and falls back through, she's scarred, burned, and no longer the woman they remember. Maxis knows how to survive the Dark Aether. She knows what hunts in the darkness. She even knows how they might stop the outbreak. But she doesn't remember her team. She doesn't remember her life. Now humanity's only hope lies with three Hearts buried somewhere inside the Dark Aether. To destroy them, Maxis has to go back. This time, she's taking the three strangers who once meant everything to her.

Aureliana Embers has always found solace in the chaos of her best friends-Fred and George Weasley and Lee Jordan. With them, life at Hogwarts is filled with mischief, laughter, and pranks. But beneath her clever remarks and easy smiles, she hides a darkness she can never speak of. Every summer, she's forced to return to a home that isn't home at all-a place where cruelty and silence are her only companions. But this year, something's different. This year, the weight of her secrets is suffocating, and no matter how hard she tries to hide the truth, her friends see right through her. As the friendship between Fred Weasley and Aureliana deepen, so does Fred's determination to unravel the mystery behind her haunted eyes. But Aureliana has spent years building walls to protect herself-and she's terrified of what might happen if she lets someone in. With the school year passing in a blur of pranks, stolen moments, and late-night confessions, Aureliana begins to realize that maybe, just maybe, she doesn't have to fight alone. But some scars run deeper than others. And when the past finally catches up with her, will she have the strength to fight for the future she truly deserves?

"𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐧," 𝐒𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭. "𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐦𝐚𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠; 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬...." ~~~~~~ Eighteen-year-old Dianna Jocasta Silver--or DJ, as she prefers to be called--is running on coffee, sarcasm, and pure survival instinct. She wasn't born under normal circumstances. 𝐍𝐨. She was the result of a failed experiment that left her carrying a deadly genetic curse. Raised in the lawless Rogue Lands, DJ has spent her life playing guardian to three sisters. She's learned how to survive without depending on anyone. Then her sister is diagnosed with aplastic anemia. With no other choice, DJ is forced to accept help from the father who abandoned them years ago. But his help comes with a price: leaving everything she's ever known and enrolling at 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐬 𝐀𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡, where she must trust the very man she spent years learning to hate with the care of her little sister. And then there's 𝐁𝐫𝐲𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐧. A broken weapon. A future Alpha. And the only person DJ has met who carries the same curse running through her veins. He hates her loud mouth. Her constant jokes. Her refusal to take anything seriously--even when the darkness inside her is slowly taking over. DJ hates that he might be the only person who understands exactly what she's becoming. At Postestas Aegis, friendship, school politics, old secrets, and a curse neither of them fully understands begin pulling them close.

Dust has spent his entire life living in the shadows of violence, loyalty, and bloodshed. As Smoke's stepbrother and right-hand man, he's known throughout the city as ruthless, unpredictable, and dangerously loyal to the people he considers family. While Smoke rules with fear and control, Dust is the chaos beside him-the man willing to get his hands dirty without hesitation. But underneath the tattoos, sharp tongue, and reckless behavior is a man carrying years of anger, abandonment, and loneliness. Dust has never believed he deserved love. Not after the life he's lived. Not after all the blood on his hands. Then she walks into his life. She's everything he isn't-soft where he's hard, patient where he's impulsive, and brave enough to look past the monster everyone else fears. For the first time, Dust begins to imagine a future beyond violence and survival. But enemies are closing in, old betrayals resurface, and Dust's past refuses to let him go. Now he has to decide if he's willing to lose everything to protect the woman who's slowly teaching him how to live instead of simply survive. In a world built on loyalty, danger, and family, Dust will have to fight for the one thing he never thought he could have: Love.

Not the planet. The god. For centuries, Pluto ruled the Underworld with quiet fairness, asking for neither worship nor love. Time moved on. Empires crumbled. Temples became museums. Then, in 2006, even the planet that carried his name was declared "not enough." It shouldn't have mattered. It did. Marigold has spent half her life talking to the night sky. She works part-time at a planetarium, grows herbs in her backyard, reads tarot, and still insists Pluto is a real planet, no matter what any scientific committee says. She never expected the universe to answer back. When an impossible conversation leads her to the lonely god of the dead, Marigold discovers that myths don't disappear-they simply learn how to survive unnoticed. As friendship becomes something neither of them expected, Pluto must confront the weight of immortality, the complicated truth of his marriage to Queen Proserpina, and whether someone eternal can ever truly offer a future to someone whose life is heartbreakingly brief. A slow-burn fantasy romance about forgotten gods, quiet hope, second chances, and the people who remind us that our worth was never decided by the world. Sometimes all it takes is one person who still believes.

𐀔#3 IN 𝓯𝓪𝓮 𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓮 SAGA 𐀔 ❝On Ahknan's lips was the slightest trace of a dark smile. "Oh Peter....." Ahknan snarled with a measured drawl. "You always have been far too trusting..❞ At long last, Lisa is mildly safe in Puck's world, the Faerie Realm. And after making new acquaintances, and becoming accustomed to the exotic cultures and magic, she begins to lose her heart to this new land. But when war begins to brew, Lisa is not safe in either world. Despite her immense trust for Puck, Puck cannot hide Lisa in his arms forever. And as the Seelie King and Queen become desperate for alliances, danger begins to twist around the struggling kingdom, leaving it open to stubborn Trolls, lying Djinni, and the wicked Unseelie Faeries. And when all seems well, there could be an occurrence that breaks everything. Meanwhile, Alex, James and Tory come to an end in their search for Lisa.... And they come to the end of the world! And when they learn the truth about the war, and the potential fate of their world, will they accept it, or choose to forget about the whole thing? That might be difficult. Especially since James may have to step into a strange position of leadership....

My eyes flashed to his chest briefly, but unfortunately not briefly enough. Thank God for giving the six-foot-something manchild with daddy issues a six-pack and dimples. A grin tugged at Seb's lips as he moved closer. "You have to be crazy, or else you were serious about the four grand." "I was," he said. "I have a proposition." I laughed once. "No." "No? It's four grand. Hear me out." I didn't reply. I just looked at him. Sebastian King continued anyway. "You pretend to date me this summer, I pay you four thousand dollars cash." ── ⋆⋅𖤓⋅⋆ ── Liana Burke takes a summer counsellor job at Camp Kingatoa because UBC is expensive, and being poor doesn't come with a grace period. She expects mosquitoes, sticky kids, minimum wage, and eight weeks of keeping other people's children alive. Instead, she gets trapped in the woods with: › Carter Wright - the golden boy she's loved since they were kids sharing free school lunches. › Sienna Monroe - her former best friend, who learned years ago exactly how to turn Liana's poverty into a punchline. › Sebastian King - spoiled, reckless, ridiculously rich, and the boy who once proved in one casual sentence that no matter how close they grew up, Liana still belonged beneath him. Then Sienna cheats on Sebastian. With Carter. Suddenly, Sebastian wants revenge. And Liana needs money. So Seb offers her a deal: Fake-date him for the summer. Make their exes jealous. Get paid four thousand dollars cash. Liana knows better than to trust Sebastian King. Unfortunately, tuition costs considerably more than her dignity. And at Camp Hustler, everybody learns the same lesson eventually: Everyone has a price. The problem? The longer Liana pretends to be Sebastian King's girlfriend, the harder it becomes to remember which parts are fake. ── ⋆⋅𖤓⋅⋆ ──